Rev. Carl McIntire began his ministry in the late 1930s, and in 1941 he founded the American Council of Churches as a counter-force to the mainstream National Council of Churches, to combat what he described as the evils of religious modernism and Communist infiltration of the church. McIntire was also antiunion, anti-United Nations, and anti-Catholic. For most of his career McIntire's influence was limited to the few readers of his newspaper, The Christian Beacon, and listeners to a small radio station in Chester, Pennsylvania, which broadcast his views. In 1958, however, McIntire started a syndicated radio show, The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour, which reached six hundred radio stations by the mid 1960s. Throughout the 1960 presidential campaign, McIntire vigorously opposed the candidacy of John F. Kennedy because of Kennedy's liberalism and Roman Catholicism. McIntire helped to promote the...